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Steve Wozniak was born. His father was a engineer for Lockheed and inspired his interest in electronics. -
Wozniak built his own radio station and received a ham-radio license at 11 years old. -
Steve Wozniak designed the "Blue Box" which was a device that could allow you to have long distance phone calls without paying. Wozniak would sell a few of these to member of his old high-school. -
Wozniak worked at many different electronic firms before obtaining his position with the Hewlett-Packard Company. His role was designing calculator chips for the company. -
Wozniak was one of the people to attend the first meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club. -
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs worked together to forms the Apple Computer Company. -
Steve Wozniak designed an 8-bit motherboard-only computer that was intended for personal use. The Apple company was initially formed to sell this product. The product launched at $666.66 -
The Apple II was the first personal computer to break into the mainstream. It included a built in keyboard and support for a color monitor. The Apple II would be succeeded by the Lisa and Macintosh models, which began to feature graphical user interfaces. -
The Apple company goes public at 22$ per share and turned Steve Wozniak and other employees into millionaires. -
Steve Wozniak was involved in a serious plane crash in 1981, which resulted in him temporarily suffering from short-term memory loss. While he made a full recovery, the distress caused him to step away from Apple for a while -
Wozniak founded the Company CL 9 and created the first programmable universal remote. The company would go on to close in 1988 -
After retiring from Apple in 1985, Steve Wozniak was presented with the National Medal of Technology by the U.S. president at the time, Ronald Reagan. -
In 2000, Wozniak was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. -
Wheels of Zeus was another company founded by Wozniak that was centered around developing GPS technology. Wheels of Zeus eventually had its platformed licensed by Motorola. -
Wozniak published his autobiography "iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It." -
Wozniak became the chief scientist at Fusion-Io in 2009 and sought to produce higher capacity solid state drives (SSDs). Fusion-Io was sold to sandisk in 2014 shortly before Wozniak left the company.